. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Sept. 28 1905 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 679. -V (£otttributeb ^- Special Ctrttcles =\ - Work in the Apiary for October BY C. r. DADANT THE honey crop is now entirely over, and all supers on the hives should be removed. Those combs that have been run through the extractor and returned to the hivos for cleaning and repair would best be taken off before the end of the month. Cool mornings, when the bees have oon^^regated in the brood-chamber, arc best for this end. In warm days we would find those supers full of bees, and there would be <|Uite a task t
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Sept. 28 1905 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 679. -V (£otttributeb ^- Special Ctrttcles =\ - Work in the Apiary for October BY C. r. DADANT THE honey crop is now entirely over, and all supers on the hives should be removed. Those combs that have been run through the extractor and returned to the hivos for cleaning and repair would best be taken off before the end of the month. Cool mornings, when the bees have oon^^regated in the brood-chamber, arc best for this end. In warm days we would find those supers full of bees, and there would be <|Uite a task to remove them. But it is better to delay the removal until late in the month, as we avoid the possible development of moth-eggs among the combs that are deprived of bees during the remaining warm days of fall. The weak colonies must be again examined. If they have been helped during September with combs of brood and honey, ihey will be found quite populous. But such colonies as have not succeeded in getting a .sufficient surplus, or those that are queenless or too weak in bees to go well through the winter, should be united either with stronger colonies, or added to one another. It is sometimes possible to make one good colony out of two or three poor ones; one of them furnishing combs of honey, another bees, another a good queen. But there is always more or less danger of their fighting when united, un- less it is done late, and the bees smoked very thoroughly be- fore putting them together. We have often united colonies l)y bringing them slowly together, moving each hive a few inches every day, so they may not lose their bearings, and then uniting them some very cool morning by transferring the combs loaded with bees from one hive to the other. It is well to remove all combs but two or three, previous to this uniting, so that the bees may all be gathered in a bunch, and those combs may be removed in one handful and inserted in the other hive. We always aim to remove from the
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